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yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com, "kent_spong" <kent_spong@...> wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> As from tommorrow KSR will be providing a new service to all CS80
> owners. In the form of a board repair by post instead of humping
> their CS80 to KSR for small repairs and upgrades.
Excellent news Kent! Now if only the boards snapped into connectors,
like Oberheim or Moog did: I'd be pretty paranoid removing all the
wires from a KAS or TKC. There's also the issue of knowing which board
to remove, but this will still be a huge deal to CS owners who live far
away from the few of us who can fix these beasts.
> In addition to
> this I have decided to release the Dynamic Mono/Poly mod as a easy
> to fit kit with everything needed to fit and play. All you have to
> do is solder in the wires.
Wow. Please put this in the CS-80 I sold to Richard and then ship it
back to me :^)
> I have been thinking about taking the midi aspect of the 80 to a
> new level and producing a kit form of this too. The one thing that
> seems to be needed is more control of the front panel sliders and
> switches and an ability to store programs. Since I restore all
> vintage synths as well as 80's, time seems to be the hardest thing
> to get to work this all out, but I have made a start with the basic
> outline.
This gets back to the discussion I started here over a year ago when I
was thinking of adding mods to my new '80. You can go on forever down
this road. Years ago I would have modded the heck out of it, but with
the high value of them these days it's hard not to worry about what mods
might do to the resale value.
>
> Also some time towards the end of the year I will be refurbishing
> glide strips with new gold plated spring and crushed velvet cover.
> My 80 is now sporting a red velvet glide strip. :)
Also very cool. While you're doing that, how about matching colored
tolex we were talking about months ago:
http://www.vibroworld.com/parts/tech11.htmlSpeaking of which, Max sent me a picture of a CS-80 being fixed up that
had the tolex removed on the lower half. The wood underneath looked
just like the finish of the exposed wood around the panel. It looked
really nice.
>
> I'm still having talks with Yamaha japan via Yamaha UK to get them
> to run off a batch of IG00153 VCO's for me. So far I have got
> a "well we might be able to do that" from them. So I am starting a
> petition to get them to go for it as I feel they think there is not
> enough people out there who want to buy brand new, dead stable, late
> version CS80 VCO's. Yes who indeed?
That would be great. It would be an expensive tuning, but possibly the
last it would ever need!
Keep up the great work Kent!
David